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CIPC #264: Album covers

Posted on March 15, 2022December 28, 2022

A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about chess themed book covers, which greatly endangered my faith in humanity. A later post about…

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CIPC #263: KikoRiki S2 E99, Chess

Posted on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

It is a truth universally acknowledged that children are getting worse and worse at pretty much every subject in school. Almost every vaguely modern phenomenon…

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CIPC #262: Little nightmares 2

Posted on March 1, 2022March 1, 2022

Time to talk about a video game once more! Little nightmares 2 is a puzzle-platformer from five years ago. In it, the player takes control…

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CIPC #261: It! The terror from beyond space

Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022

Sometimes a title tells you everything you need to know. If your movie is called It! The terror from beyond space, it is bound to…

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CIPC #260: Stouffer’s ad

Posted on February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

I don’t know where this ad comes from, neither in space nor in time. The text and the company strongly suggest it must originate from…

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CIPC #259: Alfred Hitchcock presents S2 E33, A man greatly beloved

Posted on February 8, 2022February 8, 2022

What happens if you cross Winnie the Pooh with Psycho? This burning question that was on no one’s lips is answered in today’s subject. As…

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CIPC #258: My cousin Vinny

Posted on February 1, 2022December 28, 2022

After last week’s crime drama, there’s a courtroom comedy on the menu today. It is a film from 1992. At least, that’s the mainstream theory.…

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CIPC #257: The silent partner

Posted on January 26, 2022February 3, 2022

The silent partner was recommended to me by one of my readers – a silent partner, if you like. It is a 1978 movie about…

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CIPC #256: Dance of the vampires

Posted on January 18, 2022February 3, 2022

Dance of the vampires is a film by Roman Polanski which is supposed to fuse comedy and horror but falls a good distance short of…

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CIPC #255: Alcoa aluminium ad

Posted on January 11, 2022January 13, 2022

We finished last year talking about a strange advertisement from an American aluminium company. We will start this year by talking about a strange advertisement…

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